WEBVTT DY WAS HANGINGOUT THE CAR WINDOW AS HE WASSHOOTING.BOB: AN FHP TROOPER PULLS OVER ASUSPECT VEHICLE ALONG THETURNPIKE IN ORANGE COUNTY, THENPROCEEDS TO ARREST 30-YEAR-OLDPASSENGER ELVIS ARTOLA ONSUSPICION OF FIRING OUT THEWINDOW ON AND OFF FOR 15 MILES.EARLIER THAT EVENING, A MOTORISTCALLED 911 TO REPORT SHOTS FIREDOUT OF A CAR NEXT TO HIMFOUR LOUD BANGS THAT HEINITIALLY MISTOOK FOR HIS TIREBLOWING OUT.>> IT WAS LOUD.HE WAS RIGHT NEXT TO ME.I HEAR FOUR SHOTS POP OFF.I THOUGHT MY TIRE BLEW.BOB: AFTER THE SHOCKING SOUND,A SHOCKING SIGHT.THE CALLER TELLING DISPATCH ATONE POINT THE GUNMAN WAS HANGINGOUT THE PASSENGER WINDOW.>> BASICALLY, A WHITE MALESTICKING HIS HEAD OUT THE WINDOWWITH A RIFLE SHOOTING AT THECOWS.HALF HIS BODY WAS OUT THE WINDOWSHOOTING. BOB: BY THE TIME TROOPERS GOT TOTHE VEHICLE, THE DRIVER TOLDTHEM ARTOLA, "REALIZED HE HADMADE A MISTAKE AND PLACED THEGUN IN THE TRUNK." DASHCAM VIDEO INCLUDES TROOPERSPULLING THE AR-15 STILL HOT TOTHE TOUCH.EVIDENCE, THEY SAY, IT HADRECENTLY BEEN FIRETHE FHP SAYS THIS GUNMAN PUTOTHERS AT RISK AND PRAISED THE911 CALLER FOR BEING CALM,GETTING THEM THE CAR TAG AND

Four loud bangs. That's what a caller to 911 described as he was driving northbound on the Florida Turnpike through Osceola County on Sunday evening.

"I thought my tire blew," the unidentified witness told dispatch.

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Then, he realized those were gunshots coming from the car next to him. And a passenger was still firing out the window.

"Basically, a white male sticking his head out the window with a rifle shooting at cows," the caller reported. "Half his body was out the window shooting."

The caller slowed down and was able to get the tag number of the Blue Hyundai suspect vehicle.

Miles up the turnpike into Orange County, a trooper pulled over the suspect vehicle.

In the report, the car driver told investigators his 30-year-old passenger, Elvis Artola, "was not a bad guy," but that changes "when he drinks." Neither the driver nor another passenger in the car were charged.

When asked if he had a weapon in the car, Artola reportedly told troopers, "Yes, in the trunk of the vehicle."

Dashcam video shows troopers arresting Artola and recovering an AR-15 rifle they said was "still hot to the touch." It's evidence, they said, that the rifle had recently been fired.

With that, Artola was arrested on multiple charges, some of which were later dropped due to lack of probable cause. Tuesday afternoon, he remained in the Orange County jail on suspicion of improper exhibition of a firearm and firing the weapon in public.

Troopers said Artola put others at risk and credit the 911 caller for leading them to him. In their report, they noted that witness asked his name not be released due to fear of retaliation.